WWE's Chelsea Green Wants an Eminem “Eras Tour.” She Asked for It on His Own Radio Show.
Chelsea Green sat down with D-Stroy on Shade45 and pitched a Taylor Swift style tour built entirely out of Eminem's catalog. She has the Instagram post, the gym playlist and the childhood regret to back it up. We went through the interview, the man standing in her way, and why the idea will not die easily.
By @bradleymines ·
Chelsea Green walked into Shade45 this week with a fully formed pitch: a Taylor Swift style tour, except every song is Eminem's. First reported by eminem.news.
Chelsea Green, the WWE star who won the interim Women's Championship in a ladder match at SummerSlam in August, came to Shade45 this week with an idea she had clearly been sitting on for a while. Talking to host D-Stroy, she did not ease into it. She said it changed her algorithm, her gym playlist and, in her telling, her whole month.
Chelsea Green: "My algorithm right now is all Eminem. And I've been saying that for the past like two weeks. I put up a post on my Instagram story and said, 'We need an Eras Tour, but for Eminem'. I was too young to go to an Eminem concert. My parents weren't taking me to an Eminem concert back in the day. It was too scary for them. But I'm dying now. At the age of 35, I have got to see Eminem in concert. I need a full Eras Tour. So now my gym playlist is all Eminem. My Instagram algorithm is all Eminem. And now I come in here, and here you are."
Green's pitch to D-Stroy, the clip ePro posted alongside the story.
Why she landed on Eminem's doorstep, not Taylor Swift's
The reference point is obvious. Taylor Swift's Eras Tour turned a nearly two-decade catalog into a single three-hour show, with a dedicated block for each album era, and became the highest grossing tour in history along the way. Green's pitch borrows the structure wholesale and swaps in Eminem's twenty-six years of records: the Slim Shady shock era, the Marshall Mathers LP run, Recovery, Kamikaze, The Death of Slim Shady, all of it, staged chronologically instead of played as a greatest hits set.
Green's case for it is personal, not just a fan's wish list. She says her parents considered an Eminem show too intense for a kid, so the concert she wanted as a teenager never happened. Now 35 and headlining WWE television most weeks, she is making the ask herself, in public, on the artist's own platform, which is more direct than most fan campaigns ever get.
The man she pitched it to has already gotten Eminem to talk
D-Stroy is not a random DJ for this particular ask. He hosted the Back to School special with Eminem himself on Shade45's Labour Day programming, a rare sit-down where Marshall talked about taping radio onto cassette tapes as a kid and why some of his own songs are hard to perform live. If anyone currently has a line to Eminem's camp, it is the man Green was talking to. That does not mean the pitch travels any further than the studio, but it is not nothing either.
The actual obstacle: Eminem barely tours at all
This is where the idea runs into a wall Green did not build. Eminem performs on a handful of dates a decade, not a schedule that supports a multi-city, multi-leg run through his catalog. Denaun Porter laid out the reasons himself on The 3rd Verse: a manager who negotiates him down to roughly four shows a year, the physical toll of a set built on breath control and speed, and a preference for studio work over the road. Rumors of a full comeback tour have circulated for years, and they keep resurfacing without ever becoming a real announcement. An Eras Tour is the kind of commitment that would need months of dates, not one more one-off set.
None of that makes the idea bad. It makes it the latest entry in a long list of tour concepts Eminem fans keep building and he keeps not booking.
What would actually be on the setlist
If anyone did build this, the catalog gives it an obvious shape by era: the Slim Shady LP side of the show leaning on the shock-rap tracks that made him famous, a Marshall Mathers LP block carrying the bulk of his chart peaks, an Eminem Show stretch built around the records that crossed him into arena-rock territory, Recovery and Relapse representing the comeback years, and a closing stretch pulling from Revival through The Death of Slim Shady. His catalog has the depth for it. The Slim Shady LP alone recently crossed 2 billion Spotify streams, a quarter century after it came out, which is the kind of number that usually gets a promoter's attention regardless of how often the artist wants to play arenas.
Where this actually sits
Nothing here is a leak, a tour date or an official response from Eminem's team. It is a WWE champion telling a Shade45 host, on the air, that she wants a specific kind of show to exist. D-Stroy did not promise to pass the message along, and nothing in the interview suggests Eminem's camp has heard the pitch at all. But the ask is public now, it is specific, and it comes from someone who has her own platform every week on SmackDown to keep bringing it up. If an actual Eras Tour ever happens, it will not be because Chelsea Green asked for one. It just might be the first time someone asked for it this clearly.